Captains Blog » Blue Marlin. Madeira Big Game fishing. First Blue Marlin. “Katherine B”. Peter Bristow.

May – Blue Marlin arrive.

captain — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:49:35 +0000

MAY – The Marlin have arrived. The first fish was caught on May 7. A few have already been

The New Roof at last. Ready to go.

seen and a few bites going on. I am still hauled out and getting on with the new roof and general maintenance.

Chris with a nice WAHOO

chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:11:06 +0000

This is a 60 lb fish and serious work on 20 lb gear. Like trying to hang onto a Race horse at high speed. Chris wrote me a few days ago and said ” I had a really good time and I never expected the Wahoo fishing to be that good, and the night out at Viola topped it off and the boy managed a big T-bone with a pint! ”

OCTOBER 8th and BETTER again

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:20:29 +0000

The Captain with the days catch of 6 out of 11 hookups. All the strikes were multiples and up to four at a time. It gets hectic with two anglers on 20 lb gear and trying to handle four fish at a time.

Katherine’s in the chair, Bums in the air.

chris — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:12:45 +0000

Katherine in the air on a 600 Blue

WAY TO GO Katherine. Even as small as she is at 15, with the correct adjustment to the chair it is a piece of cake for any agile junior angler. To make things even easier to get that rod to the chair I made an addition of the butt handles from Roddy Hayes. Running around the cockpit with one of those outfits is not easy at best of times but the handles seen in the pic made it so much easier.

GEORGE STAROS

chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:14:01 +0000

George Staros passed away last Friday Aug 14 at his home in Florida. George and his brother Bill were known as the Golden Greeks and dominated the tuna fishing scene in Florida for years with the most famous of anglers, Bill Carpenter and Jo Jo Del Guercio.

L-R. G Hallam, P Bristow, B Staros, Jo Jo & Mrs Del Guercio, George Staros with Jo Jo's first Grander.

FIRST TIME ANGLERS

chris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:43:29 +0000

Here is a good example of success for a first time angler. This fish also came up tail wrapped and completely out of puff. Turning a fish loose in this condition could result in certain death. We tied a lanyard to the bill and towed the fish about one boat length behind the boat; slow ahaed on one engine. About ten minutes was all it took and the fish started swimming upright and came right up to the boat where it was released to live a good life in the North atlantic. see you next year Fish !!

Adam Jones with his first Blue after two days fishing off Madeira.

THE BITE CONTINUES

chris — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:22:50 +0000

There is a steady bite going on in Madeira with good fish being caught every day. The fish are averaging 600 to 800 with some 9/1000 as well.

Barry Larsen from Scotland releases his FIRST Blue ever on his FIRST day of MARLIN fishing EVER. We called it 7/800

First Blue Marlin arrive

chris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:42:55 +0000

The first credible sighting of a Blue Marlin off Madeira was reported today. Capt Miguel just called me from his catamaran the “SEA BORN” and told me a 7/800 lb Blue swam up to his boat looking for something to eat. Miguel knows what he is looking at as he has been fishing off Madeira for many years. The fish was seen one and a half miles in front of Funchal Harbor. The ocean around Madeira is teaming with bait and activity at this time.